Oil Painting: Female Nude; Signed, Titled, Dated & Inscribed Inverso 'Ol Auf Leinwand Halbakt Mit Kleinem Hund Heidacker

She holds a small green dog like a trophy, and the dog seems to agree.

Halbakt Mit Kleinem Hund is an oil on canvas by Stephanus Heidacker, from Germany, dated 1989. It is signed, titled, dated and inscribed on the reverse. The half-length nude has a long history in European painting, and twentieth-century artists often used it to explore simplified, sculptural form. A slender woman with dark hair pinned back looks down, her body built from flat planes of pink and white. She cradles a pale green dog with a long white head. The background is a warm, scumbled olive-brown, with the signature at lower right. It is 28 inches wide and 26 high.

The dog clearly considers itself the subject.